Hungarian authorities put together massive OneCoin taskforce
The bad news for OneCoin continues, with the Hungarian Central Bank today announcing a joint investigation with various police departments and tax authorities.
On May 5th representatives from the Interior Ministry, Budapest Police Headquarters, the Municipal Prosecutor’s Office, the Prosecutor General’s Office the National Tax and Customs Administration, the National Bureau of Investigation, the National Police and the National Bank of Hungary convened to discuss OneCoin.
The meeting was initiated by the National Bank, following OneCoin warnings issued in 2015 and 2016.
Whereas the first warning was somewhat general in nature (OneCoin is not registered to offer investments in Hungary, please don’t invest etc.), the second warning singled out OneCoin for being a pyramid scheme.
Evidently the time for warnings is over, with the National Bank feeling the need to escalate action against OneCoin.
What comes of the assembled taskforce remains to be seen.
Hungary is the third country to recently clamp down on OneCoin, with both India and Germany taking action against the scam last month.
Tom McMurrain, a top US OneCoin investor, was scheduled to hold recruitment events in India from April 28th. After the arrest of 18 OneCoin affiliates on April 23rd, the OneCoin India tour events were promptly cancelled.
McMurrain spent the week ranting and raving on Facebook live.
Similarly, Germany’s BaFin regulator banned promotion and operation of OneCoin in Germany on April 27th.
German OneCoin affiliate Udo Deppisch was scheduled to host two OneCoin events in Ulm (May 10th) and Nuremberg (May 11th).
As of a few hours ago, the status of both events was updated to “cancelled” on the official OneLife Events website:
Stay tuned…
I think Onecoin really strong like a Mafia, no matter how many punches in their face, they still survive like Rocky Balbao : > I am really admire both Rujamama and Greenwood Papa!
raulf paulick the top onecoin recruiter of germany is expected to hold a recruitment meeting on may 13th at the bristol hotel, budapest, hungary.
poor raulf paulick cannot feed from germany’s trough anymore! he will have to take his ponzi appetite to other countries, to continue his pigfest.
will raulf paulick go to hungary now, or will he cancel and give oz an opportunity to ruhroh again?!
raulfie cancelled – Ruhroh! 🙂
I am delighted that Deppisch has fallen flat with his event.
I have done my best to inform folks in Germany of these events when they were publicised. I don’t know, but it would be cool to have helped a little.
You admire the thieves who are stealing your money? That’s just effed up.
Not a surprise. And it is continuing in Germany: The prosecutor in Bielefeld (Germany) has started investigations against seven OneCoin guys (Source: sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/ermittlungen-wegen-betrugs-bei-onecoin-krimi-ums-kryptogeld-1.3497604).
Mainly people behind IMS International Marketing Services. The Spokesman for the prosecutor confirmed at sueddeutsche’s request.
I stumbled upon a video featuring “head of [Global] administration and the heart and soul of OneCoin”, Konstantin Ignatov, Ruja’s mafioso-looking brother.
In this video is a brief episode where two Swedish guys talk with Ruja in what seems to be very tense atmosphere and then, seems almost like Ruja calls his brtoher to intimidate the the two guys.
He seems quite a central figure in OneCoin, yet there seems to be little information about him and he apparently is not often seen performing in public events.
Perhaps the obvious reason is that he looks like a street thug and not a person who would help to bring about “financial revolution” with cutting edge cryptocurrency technology, so they keep him in the back stage.
But Here Ruja (?) is saying that he is also a doctor. Well, you never know — you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover… ;-D
Have you more details on his role in OneCoin?
Lol, on appearance alone Ignatova’s brother is a deadringer for the mob.
@Mikado2
Many hands lighten the load 🙂
@Semjon
I heard from a reliable source that he had been spending a lot of time in Dubai and Germany until recently (obviously); but is lately tripping to spend a lot more time at a home in Spain now, where he feels less …scrutinized. The Steinkeller (or Christian at least) also has a big house in Spain, by the way.
@Mag. Huygens – RE: IMS
Perhaps why Frank Rickets and Kenny Nordlund were mysteriously absent from Macau!
@Semjon, that twitter account is definitely a parody.
It uses the preop picture, says “dr. Ruja Onecoinova” and contains some very weird stuff such as linking a video explicitly contrasting bitcoin as a working system with the non-existing onecoin, and open mockery of a OneCoin victim for her native British accent; a few references to what a whitepaper is.
She brags brags about a Chinese “Certificate of design patent”, whatever that is, being sold on dealshaker.
It is weird that Tim Tayshun seems to have fallen for it.
The reply here twitter.com/drRujaOneCoin/status/830388508699267073 mentioning “Byzantine generals” is a Computer Science joke, for Ruja out of character, and probably also out of reach.
Sorry, I’m an idiot. Tim was playing along.
However “Onecoin Onelife Army” is a believer, and takes the fake account seriously.
He even retweeted:
twitter.com/drRujaOneCoin/status/821757283243790336
This is awesome. I could waste days reading this stuff.
DEALSHAKER MERCHANT EXPO 2-4 Jun. BUCHAREST ROMANIA
evensi.com/expozitia-comerciantilor-dealshaker-romexpo/202771987
Great if Romanian Authorities starts to wake up as well.
BOOYA! It now appears that social media savvy Pablo Munoz was texting and driving on his way to the airport a few days ago, which lead to his accident, fractures and all!
Because apparently he got hit so hard by that darn “cement truck” while holding his phone in his hand that not only did it “wind him up in the hospital, but it musta clean knocked his entire Onecoin history right off of his LinkedIn profile!!
linkedin.com/in/pablomunoz2/
Thanks to Y.C. for the find!!!
The “company official” statistics from dealshaker.com say they have 30 000 registered businesses and 177 000 individual users that have logged in at least once. What is the point of talking about 3 000 000 customers if only 177 000 of them even theoretically could buy whatever you want to sell?
What is not mentioned is the amount of open deals. The Dealshaker main page lists amount of open deals per category. When summed up, there are amazing 8 603 open deals at the moment.
The 177 000 users includes every single user that has ever logged in, whether they have bought anything, set anything for sale or just watched the lists of products without buying.
I highly doubt 120 000 of those 177 000 users are selling something, especially as we are 111 400 deals short of that even being possible.
I know there is at least one registered business that has 134 open deals.
I’ll repeat: One business counts for 1,5% of the deals alone. And it’s not only one that has a big bunch of deals, multiple go to double-digits, most likely some go to triple digits too.
Here’s the link to the merchant page for those that need proof.
But let’s for the sake of argument ignore plain clear facts and assume that every deal comes from a different business. Even then:
1) Only 28% of the registered businesses have set deals for sale.
2) Over 70% of the businesses have never put an item for sale. Not even one.
3) None of the users would be selling anything. If they are, even LESS of the businesses have put something for sale.
If I were a representative of OneCoin, I’d be so embarrassed that I’d keep it quiet about the numbers of the “merchant platform”.
@Otto Thanks,hoped someone would react on the figures.
OC REpr dont know the word “embarrassement”. ONECOIN have been lying and cheating for over 2 years, so they will untill the bitter end.
That Twitter acount “dr. ruja onecoinova” is definitly not real. Why would Ruja want an account with a picture showing her “old look”.
Ruja’s brother for sure holds no academic degree. Also, he is addicted to tattoos, but not to those you “collect” doing time.
I think Pablo got cold fiat…
This is the Instagram profile of Ruja’s brother: instagram.com/boogeyman_k_/
He is a vegan and loves animals, lifts and collects tattos. He likes nice things like designer underwear and obviously travels around all the time with his sister, but never-ever mentions OneCoin on his profile. Seems quite smart and no thug.
bwahaha^^ looks like poor pablo crawled out the onecoin backdoor and hoped no one would notice! too late, his name is etched in history as the numbnut who went from avon to the biggest ponzi scheme in contemporary history.
oneconners should ask themselves why their CEO crept away when no one was looking, and wont even mention onecoin in his bio?
and numbnuts V2 peirre arens should ask himself why he’s taking over from pablo? is the money thaaat good? really?
@Otto Thanks.
By the way: OneCoin is officially selling education. Are they paying taxes then? If you sell stuff, you have to buy taxes – sometimes in the source country.
But i am quite shocked how many people are still believing in OneCoin, DealShaker, XCoinX etc. It is a cult, a sect. Not a investment, nor a education stuff.
In Hungary, there are the most rebellious leaders who are biting the population. They are called Acs Zoltan, Dr. Koros Attila, Dr. Goczan Laszlo, Nemeth Ferenc, Tasi Janos, Molnar Karoly, Duna Lajos, Szabadkai Attila.
Char: You admire the thieves who are stealing your money? That’s just effed up.
They are pirates, not thieves.
Sure, pirates, and you are a good troll or whatever.
Ever been sold a boat that is not able to swim, while sitting in the desert? That’s what onecoin is like.